My advice is to always play to your strengths against higher rated players. At least then you're still in your wheel house, even if they are too. There's most likely a much higher skill gap in your weaker areas.

Lastly: every improver should know Lucena and Philidor rook endgames!

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Once you're getting into KvP scenarios it really comes down to tempos, opposition, who can touch a pawn first, etc. There's no room for error at that point. Inaccuracies (and even mistakes) in the middlegame might be salvageable.

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If you get good with queenless positions, then you'd definitely have something there against higher rated opponents - as they might fear drawish positions and play a little too loose.

However, as a general rule: with less pieces on the board, the required accuracy greatly increases.

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Love to see you doing some larger sizes. Your aesthetics are top notch!

Fun tidbit: in Perl you can use pretty much any self closing characters when applying regex.

Defacto was always:

my $match =~ m/[a-z]+/;

Yet you can also do:

my $match =~ m{[a-z]+};
my $match =~ m'[a-z]+';
my $match =~ m<[a-z]+>;

Living up to that Tim Toady lifestyle.

That kicks it off! Now threatening Rh3, but the keep point is now after exf5 we have Nf6. We now have the g4 escape square covered again for Rh3#. White can only delay with Rh1 at that point.

I was quite pleased finding that in a 3 0 game recently.

Full line: 1. exf6!! {only winning line} Rxe3 2. Rxe3 {must} Rxe3 3. fxg7 and now black cannot stop white from queening.

Big fan of hitting the knight on the back rank with a pawn as there's no way for the knight to defend queening. That's the tactic GM Howell covered :)

I enjoyed the node chain building, the death wave in-between encounters was so-so

.Loved the first encounter; second was good but the physics were comical at first - blasting us into the ether; planets feels out of place yet the best encounter.

Overall: better than older raids and beautiful areas.

My only true complaints about RoN are more so on teammates and getting robbed during contest mode. Death animation started and then we wiped 😐

As for teammates: master planets with a sub optimal "ad clear" guardian was rough. Replaced and we were done in one.

Stay safe out there Elements.

What a novel idea, I'm also a fan of that painting. It would fit well in any shore town house.